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| - A new forum can be added by editing Forum:Index. This isn't necessary to make the forums work, as the two default forums are ready to use, but it can be useful in an active community. Create a page: <a href="/mediawiki/Forum:YOURNAME" title="Forum:YOURNAME">Forum:YOURNAME</a>, and add the category: [[Category:Forum]]. The last thing to do is to set up a template to be loaded when someone adds a page to the new forum. This should contain the following: {{Forum}} As with many elements of Wikia, many aspects of this can be changed. The layout, the template style, the items shown in the index, the new messages icon.... you could, for example, have an image appear automatically at the top of each page added, or have new messages show in red text. It's also possible to use the same code as above to make subforums such as "Forum:Help/technical". For this, the first code should be put into the parent forum page instead of the index. The inputbox forms can also have an instructional template above with the editintro parameter (See m:Inputbox for info).
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